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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1999 / Former Justice

Lindsey Miller-Lerman

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Lindsey Miller-Lerman was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Wellesley College
Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller-Lerman authored 32 published opinions for the court (1999–2019), plus 2 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Garcia (376 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 44 of these were attributed to Miller-Lerman by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2019	State v. Garcia†	302 Neb. 406	376
2018	State v. Hernandez· Concurrence†	299 Neb. 896	295
2018	State v. McCurdy†	301 Neb. 343	282
2018	McCullough v. McCullough†	299 Neb. 719	264
2018	State v. Mueller†	301 Neb. 778	247
2018	State v. Vanness†	300 Neb. 159	228
2002	Vogel v. Vogel†	637 N.W.2d 611	216
2018	State v. Clemens†	300 Neb. 601	158
2018	State v. Taylor†	300 Neb. 629	152
2006	State v. Iromuanya· Concurrence†	272 Neb. 178	131
2018	Citizens of Humanity, LLC v. Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Co.†	299 Neb. 545	125
2018	Betty L. Green Living Trust & Richard R. Green Living Trust v. Morrill Cnty. Bd. of Equal.†	299 Neb. 933	99
2000	Jack v. Clinton†	609 N.W.2d 328	90
2018	State v. Wells†	300 Neb. 296	89
2018	Gerber v. P & L Finance Co.†	301 Neb. 463	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 44 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Lindsey Miller-Lerman on?: Lindsey Miller-Lerman was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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27 years on the Nebraska Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).